This repository contains the implementation of the Decentralized Internet Archive realized in the context of a Master Thesis at the DEDIS laboratory at EPFL.

This repository is based on the DEDIS cothority template. It is highly experimental and still a prototype and should not be considered secure or reliable for real-world purposes.

Building on the ONet-library available at https://github.com/dedis/onet, this repo holds templates to build the different parts necessary for a cothority addition:

• protocol - define an ephemeral, distributed, decentralized protocol
• service - create a long-term service that can spawn any number of protocols
• app - write an app that will interact with, or spawn, a cothority

This project is related to an EPFL Master Thesis report which can be used as a documentation. Plancherel Nicolas, Decentralized Internet Archive, EPFL 2018.

Furthermore, it is based on the Cothority Template. You find more documentation on how to use the template on the wiki: Cothority Template

More documentation and examples can be found at:

• To run and use a conode, have a look at Cothority Node with examples of protocols, services and apps
• To participate as a core-developer, go to Cothority Network Library

All repositories for the cothority are double-licensed under a GNU/AGPL 3.0 and a commercial license. If you want to have more information, contact us at [email protected].

If you want to contribute to Cothority-ONet, please have a look at CONTRIBUTION for licensing details. Once you are OK with those, you can have a look at our coding-guidelines in Coding. In short, we use the github-issues to communicate and pull-requests to do code-review. Travis makes sure that everything goes smoothly. And we'd like to have good code-coverage.

You can contact us at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cothority